🚨 Recruitment-Style Phishing Is the New Front Line

😱 Researchers link an Iran-nexus group to recruitment lures that infected 34 devices across 11 organizations, using fake HR profiles to bait targets.

🧩 The bait looks real: tailored outreach, plausible interviews, and job documents that contain weaponized ZIPs or signed binaries which deploy loaders.

🧠 The payload family MINIBIKE steals credentials, logs keystrokes, and creates persistent backdoors for long-term espionage.

⚠️ These campaigns hide traffic in Azure-hosted C2 and abuse DLL sideloading to evade detection, so standard AV often misses them.

✅ Quick actions: treat unsolicited job attachments as untrusted; verify recruiter emails and LinkedIn profiles; sandbox any job-related archive before opening.

🔁 For security teams – simulate recruitment lures, tighten endpoint rules against DLL sideloading, and monitor cloud egress for anomalous C2.

🔎 SEO note: use keywords like job, recruiter, LinkedIn, credential theft, MINIBIKE to surface this threat to practitioners and hiring teams.

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